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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
God as a Mathematician
Herman Wouk on God as a mathematician. Is it, as Wouk suggests: The Language God Talks ... "? . More on writer Herman Wouk.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost Winners
In Harvard Business: The Secret Sauce of Low Cost Winners. " ... it is a culture that is "proud to be cheap" in good times and bad. Their people cut erasers...
From The Noisy Channel
Qui, Quae, Quora
A friend of mine at Quora invited me into their private beta a couple of weeks ago, and by now I suspect that many of you are using it–especially since I’ve somehow...
From Schneier on Security
Lt. Gen. Alexander and the U.S. Cyber Command
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current Director of NSA, has been nominated to head the US Cyber Command. Last week Alexander appeared before the Senate Armed Services...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 19
April 21 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and identity theft. This was previously scheduled for April 8. 10 a.m., 226...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Tennessee Moving Forward on CSTA Chapter
Tennessee is talking! Well, at least in a very small corner of Tennessee, Chattanooga to be precise, the community of Computer Science Educators is beginning to...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post : Justin Thaler/New Paper
I'm happy to introduce Justin Thaler, a first-year graduate student at Harvard that I'm advising. You can find out more about Justin at his home page. Justin"Streaming...
From Putting People First
Ubiquitous service design
Peter Morville (pictured) and Jeffery Callender, who recently released the book
From Computational Complexity
Is Guessing a good idea?
The following is from an Ask Marilyn Column. I paraphrase this since its from memory. READER'S LETTER: I have heard of exams where you are penalized for guessing...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-19
Interlocking Rings – Set of 2 I can think of a Lego fan who would love these. I wonder how long the trademark and patent threats that take these off the market...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 April 2010
Friday morning this week I head to Washington DC for the 2010 US Imagine Cup Finals. You can come by the US Imagine Cup Community Showcase on April 26, 2010 from...
From Schneier on Security
Life Recorder
In 2006, writing about future threats on privacy, I described a life recorder: A "life recorder" you can wear on your lapel that constantly records is still abeen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Singularity
On the Data Singularityby Michael E. Driscoll "... In a nutshell, the Data Singularity is this: humans are being spliced out of the data-driven processes around...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Credentials or Knowledge
The ever interesting Will Richardson got me thinking again today. He talks about how to credentialize learning in a post titled An Open Mind (In Higher Ed at Least)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flowing Data
Newly discovered company. Note the emphasis on letting experts discover hidden patterns. That's useful, but I think it better to let experts and less-than-expert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Everywhere
Economist article on the superabundance of data. The value and the complexity it produces. New techniques, hardware and pushing the manipulation of this data down...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Aware Computing
From the CACM:Recipe for Efficiency: Principles of Power-Aware ComputingPrior work on power management reflects recurring themes that can be leveraged to make future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4 Block World on Computing
In the whimsical four block world: Computers getting cheaper an better.-
From Wild WebMink
? Going Open
ACTA opens up at last; password changes pointless; crowdsourcing is not open source; and more.
From Apophenia